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Edith Aspden
In Memory of
Edith Eleanor
Aspden (Coombes)
1918 - 2017
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farm house dinner and duck tail

My Aunt (rhymes with taunt) Edith was my mother's only sister, the two youngest with three older brothers. The memory I want to share is of a family trip to Tillsonburg when I was about 12, maybe the year we went to the Montreal Expo. It was harvest time on the farm, and Aunt Edith prepared dinner for the farm hands and family. It was a splenid feast, and I had never seen so many pies! To say nothing of so many hungry men. Even at that young age, I saw a spirit of a woman who made good in her role to provide, not just a meal, but a celebration of labour. My memory may not accurate, but I think we all sat down down together to eat, the farm hands and the family, with down east company.

Second memory is earlier. Aunt Edith showed up in Fredericton with a stunning hair do - a duck tail that just shaped the back of her head into a shapley do. I was a kid and thought this was the bee's knees. No curls, just shape. And I think her hair was natural and silver grey. That image gave me courage to wear my hair short and silver. Onwards and Upwards, with love to John, Jodi, Jenni and Marg. 

Posted by alice Pitt
Tuesday October 31, 2017 at 9:47 pm
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